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  1. Archaeology

    A race to save Indigenous trails may change the face of archaeology

    As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.

    By Sujata Gupta
  2. Science & Society

    Is U.S. democracy in decline? Here’s what the science says

    Political scientists disagree over how to interpret a slight dip in the health of U.S. democracy.

    By Sujata Gupta
  3. Life

    The fruit fly revolutionized biology. Now it’s boosting science in Africa

    African researchers are using Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to advance studies of genetics, biomedicine, developmental biology, toxicology and more.

    By Darren Incorvaia
  4. Cosmology

    How did dark matter shape the universe? This physicist has ideas

    Theoretical physicist Tracy Slatyer proposes new scenarios for dark matter and helped discover the Fermi bubbles.